By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors The Department of War has ended lifetime tenure for future civilian...
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The Pentagon just put the ‘war’ back in our service academies
The War on Woke at West Point
STARRS The MacArthur Society and STARRS are mentioned in the below New York Magazine article. It’s written by Jasper...
Warfighters, Not Bureaucrats: Reforming Military Education
Every service academy graduate costs taxpayers roughly half a million dollars. So what is that investment supposed to buy...
Civilian Tenure Is Out at America’s Military Service Academies—Why It Matters
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News For years, Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) has argued that service...
Save the World War II Palawan site
STARRS supports this effort and encourages you to sign the petition: The MacArthur Society has endorsed the efforts of the...
Chairman Pfluger and Senator Hickenlooper Lead Charge for Service Academy Investment in Final NDAA
(Press Release) Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11), Chairman of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) Board of...
West Point sued for allegedly firing professor over climate change stance
More background on woke profs at West Point and how the academy is getting rid of wokeness. By Roger Hannigan Gilson | Times...
West Point Welcomes 62nd Superintendent
(USMA Press Release) Maj. Gen. James B. Bartholomees III was promoted to lieutenant general and officially took command of...
West Point Professor Challenges Ban on “Un-American, Divisive… Radical, Extremist, and Irrational Theories.”
By Jonathan Turley There is an important lawsuit being litigated in the Southern District of New York over the limits of...
Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says
By James LaPorta, Eleanor Watson | CBS News The Department of War is considering its most sweeping remake of military higher...
Marxism Is Deeply Embedded at America’s Military Service Academies
By Col Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors From his podcast, The Rob Maness Show: You just heard Secretary of War...
Academy Helicopter Parents
When you first went off to your service academy or the military, did your parents act like you were going off to...
Pom Poms and No-Shows: The Failure of Military Academy Oversight
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Some Boards of Visitors are finally doing their jobs. Others are AWOL. America’s...
Army Maj. Gen. James Bartholomees, USMA ’95, nominated to be next Superintendent of West Point
In the “Secretary of War General Officer Announcements” post on July 16, 2026, it included this: Army Maj. Gen...
‘Woke’ military academies targeted in new blueprint for sweeping warfighting overhaul
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News A conservative organization is calling for a sweeping overhaul of America’s service...
Killing Woke At West Point
By LTC Edwin L. Kennedy, Jr, USA ret, USMA ’76 STARRS Ambassador “West Point is set apart. It’s special. It’s above...
Commanders Call with Guest Speaker Congressman Keith Self, USMA 1975
The MacArthur Society’s July 9, 2026 Commander’s Call featured U.S. Representative Keith Self (USMA ’75)...
How America’s Military Academies Lost Their Way
From Restore the Military podcast: West Point was built to produce warriors. So was Annapolis. So was the Air Force Academy...
Clean Sweep at West Point
by pyrene i am pyrene. i am the head mouser cat in the united states military academy’s mess hall. previous pyrenes wrote...
West Point cadets talk America250 on national TV
Listen to these West Point cadets talk about America and service on the 250th anniversary of our country: Duty, Honor...
1999 West Point Grad Becomes New Commandant of Cadets
(WP Press Release) Brig. Gen. Joseph Katz assumed command as the 82nd Commandant of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy...
Underlying strength of Secretary Hegseth’s USMA speech is its dismissal of Cultural Marxism
By Major Donald E. Vandergriff, USA ret | From his Substack I watched Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s May 23, 2026...
Judge blocks West Point from enforcing faculty speech restrictions
By Zach Schonfeld | The Hill A federal judge on Tuesday blocked restrictions imposed by the Trump administration that...
Pete Hegseth’s anti-DEI speech at West Point is a template to save American lives
By Douglas MacKinnon | Fox News Op-Ed If you have not read, watched, or listened to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s recent...
God, Duty and the Return of Moral Clarity at West Point
Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, USA ret, USMA ’73 | Fox News Op-Ed On Saturday morning, I sat watching the rain fall over...
Pete Hegseth tears into DEI, ‘woke military’ in fiery West Point graduation speech
By Geoff Earle | New York Post Secretary of War Pete Hegseth tore into leaders who’ve tried to turn the military into “woke...
SecWar Hegseth Commencement Speech at West Point
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave the commencement speech at West Point and railed against the radical Marxist ideology...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’: The Class of 2026 and MacArthur’s enduring mandate
By Congressman Matt Van Epps, USMA 2005 As the Class of 2026 prepares to graduate from the United States Military Academy, I...
Anti-masculinity in the military lecture at Vassar featuring former West Point prof
STARRS We catch up with a former left-wing West Point professor who had fretted, “I am reminded of the tragic...
Accreditation and West Point
Brig. Gen. Mitchell M. Zais, (ret.) Ph.D. Vice Chairman of the STARRS Board of Directors Remarks Delivered by Webinar to the...
Dean of West Point leaving to become university president
Brigadier General Shane Reeves, the dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy—who was named to that position...
West Point: Sword Making or Swordsmanship?
By then-Lt. Col. Mitchell M. Zais, USA, USMA ’69 March 1990 Armed Forces Journal International (Now retired Army Brig...
West Point’s Agincourt Moment: Leadership Clinging to Outdated Tactics While Drones and AI Redefine Warfare
By Matthew Newgent, USMA 1996 I, along with other members of the MacArthur Society, attended the USMA Board of Visitors...
West Point cadet booted from Army after using AI to create nude image of woman
He forgot the “Honor” part… By Eve Sampson | Army Times A West Point cadet used artificial intelligence to...
Womack Elected to Ninth Term as Chairman of West Point Board of Visitors
The MacArthur Society had eight people attend the USMA BOV meeting on Monday, February 23, 2026 in Washington, DC...
Accreditation for Service Academies – Brig. General Mick Zais, PhD, USA ret
The MacArthur Society held a Commanders Call with guest speaker Brig. General Mick Zais, PhD, US Army retired, USMA...
Military academies now accept Classical Learning Test as alternative to ‘woke’ AP exams
By Micaiah Bilger | The College Fix More university admissions offices are now accepting an alternative to the SAT and ACT...
The Day the Fighting Cocks Died: How West Point Traded the Warrior Ethos for Political Safety
By Lt. Col. David T. Cloft, USA ret, USMA ’97 | AFNN There was a time when a group of young men at the United States...
MacArthur Society Commanders Call: The Classic Learning Test and West Point
The MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates held their monthly Commanders Call with guest speakers Jeremy Tate, the...
USMA Board of Visitors Meeting Feb 23, 2026 in Washington, DC
From the Federal Register: The USMA Board of Visitors will hold an in-person meeting on Monday, February 23, 2026 from 9 am...
Our Service Academies Are Infected With Marxism
L. Todd Wood, USAFA ’86, sits down with retired US Army Major Chase Spears on Marxism in the service academies and the...
Athletics Exception To Merit-Based Admissions Should Be Removed
By usmadata Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stipulated an athletics admissions exception for West Point and other Service...
GAO Report: Clarifying Guidance Would Enhance Effectiveness of Honor and Conduct Systems
(Government Accountability Office) U.S. service academy graduates are expected to lead as military officers. The academies...
Black Republican calls for total, permanent abolition of DEI: ‘I want to earn every opportunity on merit’
By Alex Nitzberg | Fox News Congressman Wesley Hunt of Texas (West Point 2004 grad) is calling for the complete and...
US Military Academies Must Sever Ties With Activist Accrediting Agency
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News As President Donald Trump works to rebuild a merit-driven, combat-ready military, the...
Seditious Conspiracy on Capitol Hill
By Maj. General Paul Vallely, USA ret, USMA ’61 Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 The ongoing coup conspiracy against...
West Point History Department Launches War Studies Program and Major
FINALLY, considering it’s a warfighting military academy. (West Point AOG Press Release) Much of human history can be...
West Point and Naval War College Professor Calls the America First Movement a ‘Hateful Cult’
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News …and bragged that he would celebrate President Trump’s death with champagne. Retired...
West Point Grad: Sen. Slotkin unsuited to be on the West Point Board of Visitors
Letter from a 1971 West Point graduate to Senator Jack Reed expressing concern over Sen. Slotkin being a member of the West...